Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Jinx versus Ryze counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Jinx typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jinx usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ryze, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Jinx makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Jinx does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Jinx also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Jinx into Ryze.
Moreover, Jinx has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Ryze matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Jinx is a decent counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Jinx against Ryze.
To truly master Jinx in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Jinx versus Ryze build consist of Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Kraken Slayer. When Jinx used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Ryze than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Jinx had an average winrate of 50.2% battling Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Ryze as Jinx, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Jinx vs Ryze clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
If you would like to see Jinx x Ryze tips and counter builds for a an individual rank, please select one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the stats and build suggestions shown are computed using all rounds run with these champions.